Many skilled Nigerians are torn between their determination to remain in the country and the lure of endless possibilities around ...
Activism would even be okay where activists are actually able to offer practical options and alternatives but there is more ...
…we don’t have to settle for the mediocre compromise that most of Nigeria’s mainstream political parties represent. Last week, we ...
We licked our wounds, swapped stories, stewed in our numbness, picked spent bullet shells as though we were harvesting grain. ...
The opposition’s strategy is to steal the Sout-West and the North from PDP by presenting a northern favorite through CPC ...
Because change doesn’t happen because one set of people is replaced by the next. Change only happens because one set ...
When I get referred to as an activist and I remember the stories of the real heroes of our democracy, ...
I look at all these evidently important roads and wonder what really the government is doing. Then I realize that ...
America has its problems, many of them major and possibly fatal, however its democracy seems to work most of the ...
Save for fire and brimstone, no one can distil in a nutshell what exactly Tunde Bakare and Buhari were going ...
As Walter Miller wrote in A Canticle for Leibowitz, “to minimize suffering and maximize security were natural and proper ends ...
Nothing is to say the coming together of the parties will guarantee them a win against the PDP in 2015 ...
First, there is quite obviously the silly mindset of a lot of young Nigerians have that certain jobs are beneath ...
Whether the rest of the world hates America’s guts or not, they have to admit those guys know how to ...
The way Dame Patience Jonathan was unleashed during the Presidential campaign suggested women were a clear target. I am convinced ...
A society moves forward if the people learn to solve problems that affect everyone and not when individuals look to ...
From another perspective it is super-depressing news. President come president go, fuel scarcity remain, corruption remain. Nigeria’s problems seem destined ...
Simply put, the Minister needs to see that scarce funds are being wasted on this pointless tour of states, which ...
In fact, I believe that a public budget is the most important tool that citizens can use to gauge the ...
Many years ago, a young Nigerian chose to become a police officer instead of a lawyer at the NNPC. I ...
In the South-West which it dominates, the ACN has ambled along with juvenile irredentism (Rauf Aregbesola, Osun) arrogant elitism (Babatunde ...
We are at a crossroads again. Nigeria could choose to do the right thing and engage in building those buffer ...
It kind of answers the question as to why, these days, leaders continue to chose easy fame over hard-slog decisions. ...
Like most government documents, the Sure and Steady Ready Report reads like a propaganda document, like an artist blowing his ...
But, you see, unlike Omojuwa and his passionate young friends, they actually end up doing nothing. It’s all sound ...
The lessons from Egypt were immense. It is now obvious that ordinary people can deliver extraordinary results. Whenever Wael Ghonim ...
One would assume a lot of you are jealous of her Chris Aire blings but then I also know some of ...
It’s amazing that I made it through the maze that I was in Lord ...
The Nigerian Government this morning announced that it was now “very close” to discovering the elusive “GAWD! Particle.” In an ...
…the vast majority of the people, 98%, will be dishonest and will cheat if they can get away with it ...